... > klassinen mytologia ja antiikin historia > Kreikan sankaritarut (I) > kreikkalaisten seikkailut Troijan tuhon jälkeen: Odysseuksen harharetket (Homeros, Odysseia) > wanderings of Ulysses: from the Cicones to Scylla > Ulysses departs from the island of Circe and passes through a series of dangers, which Circe had warned him about (Homer, Odyssey XII) > Ulysses escapes from Charybdis by clinging to a fig-tree